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Following the huge success of the movie IT and the excitement for the upcoming Pet Semetary, Stephen King’s The Stand is being adapted as a TV mini-series. The Stand will include approximately ten episodes and will be available on CBS all access.

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The Stand will be directed by Josh Boone, who is huge fan of King.. When asked about the work in progress he stated:

“I wrote King a cameo as himself in my first film and have been working to bring The Stand to the screen for five years. I’ve found incredible partners in CBS All Access and Ben Cavell.”

Ben Cavell who is working with Boone will be executive producing and writing the script. Boone goes onto describe a touching moment from his childhood, after his parents had burned his copy of the The Stand.

“I read The Stand under my bed when I was twelve, and my Baptist parents burned it in our fireplace upon discovery. Incensed, I stole my Dad’s FedEx account number and mailed King a letter professing my love for his work. Several weeks later, I came home to find a box had arrived from Maine, and inside were several books, each inscribed with a beautiful note from God Himself, who encouraged me in my writing and thanked me for being a fan. My parents, genuinely moved by King’s kindness and generosity, lifted the ban on his books that very day.”

The Stand is set during the apocalypse, when a super-virus that leaked from a lab wipes out most of the population, leaving the survivors to decide between what is good and what is evil, plunging them into not only a battle for survival, but also a battle of morals.

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King expressed his own excitement for the new series:

“I’m excited and so very pleased that The Stand is going to have a new life on this exciting new platform. The people involved are men and women who know exactly what they’re doing; the scripts are dynamite. The result bids to be something memorable and thrilling. I believe it will take viewers away to a world they hope will never happen.”

King’s spine-chilling work always delivers and we will be looking out for this one!

Josh Boone is following up his hit adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars in a pretty unexpected way. His next project, The New Mutants, is essentially a horror movie set in the X-men universe. Look out, Deadpool, there’s a new kid in town…a bunch, actually.

The New Mutants follows the story of a group of young mutants who are trapped in a secret facility and must escape for their lives. The film will star Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik (The Witch, Split), and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Cannonball.

Although it’s essentially a superhero-horror movie, it’s not totally mind-boggling for Fox to recruit the guy who directed The Fault in Our Stars for this one. The New Mutants promises some smart teenage angst, budding young romances, and some serious tugging on your heartstrings. Also, Boone’s making a name for himself as a horror director, having just signed on to adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman.

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